Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is plenty of time, however, for substance: four years after Jan. 20. And if backslapping and dinner chitchat will not by themselves bring down the inflation rate, they can help pass legislation designed to do that. The ability to create an aura of cheerful optimism, manipulate symbols and establish smooth personal relations with allies and adversaries is a vital asset for a President. Ronald Reagan proved last week that he possesses it in abundance, and he will surely need it in the battles that lie ahead when the honey moon is over...
Democratic Senator Henry Jackson's acceptance of a post on Reagan's military advisory panel strengthens his chances of becoming Secretary of Defense; that would give the Cabinet a bi-partisan aura. The leading candidates for Secretary of State, if Shultz does not get the job, are now William Simon, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Alexander Haig, former Nixon chief of staff. Thomas Sowell, a black conservative economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, may enter the Cabinet as Secretary of Labor or Education...
Bicycles still zip around with an aura of childishness, of unseriousness. They still await the mass discovery that they are in fact splendidly functional. They will never replace cars, but they can provide quick, superior transportation for great numbers of people daily over short distances, at tremendous savings in fossil fuels and breathable air. The bike rider also knows that riding one as the day begins is a brief pure aubade of exertion and contemplation. Why else would cyclists risk it? Then, too, subconsciously, the bicyclist may be engaged in a long-term Darwinian wager: In 100 years, which mechanism...
...have great significance to determine if either the Bruins or the Big Green will grab a share of the title. Brown concludes its season with what should provea routine game with the Lions in New York. And, of course, that extravaganza known only as The Game always possesses an aura all its own; the victor will achieve a moral triumph...
Ellsworth stressed that U.S. reluctance to intervene was causing losses in the ongoing competition with the Soviets. Criticizing the current policy for its regional concerns, he said "the president has to be prepared to play power politics" and to counteract the Soviet "aura of power that intimidates our allies...